If you want it in a video I found this...
On youtube.
Source: https://youtu.be/p6A0XTCd8pg?si=BjNIMx0Z_ZtXmTqM
On youtube.
GALNET - Famed Treasure Hunter Herman Colt Missing - 29 OCT 3310
- Thread starter Aleks Zuno
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yep i totally agree , which is why i proceeded with the entire 'hunt' from 1st jump GalNet in proper order as best i could without spoilers ... until... Well , once i got to the 3rd phase i just don't understand how u guys are decrypting the jarbled messages without using that outside 3rd party 'cypher' tool link? Is it possible to figure out these types of encryptions just by using IN-GAME methods? ( i'm not much of a code-breaker , so it's also very possible i just simply missed the obvious within the sent mail messages )
btw, after i completed the final phase of course i started wondering if somehow this is all connected to FDev wanting/hoping for us to finally discover RAXXLA to commemerate with 10-year anniversary & such. ( aka "Ascendency" ?
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I think the way to think about using 3rd party code breaking tools outside the game is that if you were a real code breaker then you would of course make use of the internet and all the tools available to you rather than just sit down with a pencil and paper and do it the hard way (we're not living in the 1920's after all). I guess it's up to the individual where they choose to draw the line. Do you google for code breaking tools, do you use the links to those tools that others have already recommended or do you simply follow the work that others have already published (if you trust them 
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Concerning the very last message:
How long did you stick around after collecting the reward? Unfortunately I was short on time yesterday and couldn't sit around for much longer than an extra minute or two. The last message specifically warns you not to stay after collecting the treasure. Did somebody have a ship drop in on them? Or is this just part of the story without actual gameplay elements?
I stayed there for several minutes, just by chance, as I was busy doing other stuff, and nothing happened.
I'm afraid it's probably the latter. I was also a bit short on time though, so I only hung around a couple of minutes... two or three or so. But it's probably just flavour text.
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I avoided any of the direct chatter around it and went straight into the game. The first one I solved by using pen and paper, once I'd established what was going on I used an online site for the others simply because it is quicker
It could all be done just by what's in game I'll give you my thinking on how I did it
And in relation to what Zimms asks I had an amusing end to my journey...
It could all be done just by what's in game I'll give you my thinking on how I did it
I realised it was a Caesar cipher (because none of the words made sense) and the first thing I always do with those sort of things is to find a two letter word, I tried moving the letters by a certain amount until they made sense.
My thinking started with. In the message one ship wasn't communicating so there were three companions who were active, so I moved the letters forwards three places and that didn't make sense, so I instead moved them back three and it did. So I did that for all letters.
I found similar clues in the others that lead me to the correct shift with the exception of the third one, which I had to brute force because I'm still not sure how it was the number used.
My thinking started with. In the message one ship wasn't communicating so there were three companions who were active, so I moved the letters forwards three places and that didn't make sense, so I instead moved them back three and it did. So I did that for all letters.
I found similar clues in the others that lead me to the correct shift with the exception of the third one, which I had to brute force because I'm still not sure how it was the number used.
And in relation to what Zimms asks I had an amusing end to my journey...
I had just reached the final beacon and scanned it. I was halfway through reading the message and just got to the bit about the ship appearing, when I suddenly got a message to say I was being scanned... I noticed a ship had appeared on my radar! 
I spun around at it was an Eagle, I could see the target markings around the ship but I couldn't initially target it. Goosebumps came up all over my arms as I flew towards it... Fortunately it was just a System Security vessel, but it scared the life out of me
I love it when random things that happen in game really heighten the atmospherics.
I spun around at it was an Eagle, I could see the target markings around the ship but I couldn't initially target it. Goosebumps came up all over my arms as I flew towards it... Fortunately it was just a System Security vessel, but it scared the life out of me
I love it when random things that happen in game really heighten the atmospherics.
People always expect there to be more. And always complain when there isn't. There was even one poster earlier expecting another event on Halloween itself 
Usually the first thing I do on stuff like this is turn off system chat if it isn't already. Regarding solving it, I'm kind of glad they didn't overcomplicate it like they did in the past - all messages use the same cypher, be it with a different key, and are theoretically solvable with pen and paper. But to be honest, I can't be arsed. The used cypher is just busywork, and my sponge brain is too dumb if they use more complicated ones.
I used the Canonn decrypter, which has only one flaw - no Caeaser with numbers. Other than that it's my go to tool for stuff like that.
I used the Canonn decrypter, which has only one flaw - no Caeaser with numbers. Other than that it's my go to tool for stuff like that.
30 mins, nothing happen... would have been a nice story twist even if ending at rebuy screen.
I do think there's an excellent opportunity for some proper roleplay ganking at the finish line. Not your regular pathetic ganking mind you, but someone in a heavily armed ship, perhaps with a nice midnight black paintjob (or maybe the one with lightning bolts crackling all over it), in a ship called something like
Morrigan's Revenge, to attack people while spamming stuff like "I warned you not to pursue the treasure and now you shall die!" in local chat.
Morrigan's Revenge, to attack people while spamming stuff like "I warned you not to pursue the treasure and now you shall die!" in local chat.
backward number shift is an hint in the message, cypher "with number" would have been extended aphabet like "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" instead of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", FDevs keep it simple for easier transliteration
As evident in this thread, you need a cypher tool with numbers, or you end up in the wrong system. Or you need to think about it for a minute or sobackward number shift is an hint in the message, cypher "with number" would have been extended aphabet like "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" instead of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", FDevs keep it simple for easier transliteration
.you are an evil being, you know that...I do think there's an excellent opportunity for some proper roleplay ganking at the finish line. Not your regular pathetic ganking mind you, but someone in a heavily armed ship, perhaps with a nice midnight black paintjob (or maybe the one with lightning bolts crackling all over it), in a ship called something like
Morrigan's Revenge, to attack people while spamming stuff like "I warned you not to pursue the treasure and now you shall die!" in local chat.
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now ganker will camp tha spot
someone will whine about "open play only" events
the second one you saidAs evident in this thread, you need a cypher tool with numbers, or you end up in the wrong system. Or you need to think about it for a minute or so
Pretty sure gankers already camp that spot - I saw the carrier of the ganker of the bovine persuasion in system. Maybe they'd even be game for that RP...
yeah but that involves... you know... thinking.the second one you said
If it was me, and if I had the pvp skills to to do it ... I'd attempt to take people down to their last 10% of hull and then leave them with a message along the lines of "heed the curse, I'll be watching you ... ALWAYS!".
no PvP skills needed. Either your victim is of the unprepared paper plane type, in which case even I could probably do it, or they are prepared and gone before you can send your message
If it was me, and if I had the pvp skills to to do it ... I'd attempt to take people down to their last 10% of hull and then leave them with a message along the lines of "heed the curse, I'll be watching you ... ALWAYS!".
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